The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-22
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


Bringing Down a Buzzard With a
Stone-The Synod of Georgia to Meet
at Rome Tomorrow An Escape
From Jail at Franklin.
GEORGIA
Several vacant stores in Darien are now
for rent.
Five lines of steamers viii ply the Chatta-
hoehee river from Columbus this winter.
w, A. Broughton, one of Morgan county's
most successful farmers, sold last Monday a
part of his cotton crop for 50, 15S 65.
The new Jail at Darien will be built
directly in rear of the court house. The
county has three years in which to pay for
1t. 1t will cost $4,000.
The storehouse of William Van Vickle, at
Hickory Level, was burned Friday night.
1t was filled with cotton seed. The loss is
$1,000, with no insurance.
Eight years ago the court house was the
only brick structure in Franklin There
are now four occupied brick stores, and
three more are nearly completed.
At Augusta Saturday the John Dawson
estate was ordered by Judge Roney to be
divided among the heirs. Each heir of the
Eve get $4,000. The administrators get
$1,000 each, and the two attorneys $4,000
each.
Joab Willis, an old and well-to-do citizen
of Taylor county, was thrown from his bug
gy at II o'clock Saturday morning and died
from his injuries at O'Clock in the after
noon. He was bachelor. He leaves his
property to the school in the Pan Handle
district of Taylor county.
Mayor Mott of Ellaville, had to give an
obstreperous citizen a thrashing one dav
last week to quiet him down. The citizen
was spelling for Il fight, and tackled the
Mayor uuder some fancied wrong, and the
plucky little Mayor had to be pulled Off
They were tried before the Board of Alder
men, who affirmed the Mayors decision,
and the citizen was fined as well as pun
meled.
Jim Patton and Jesse Wright were i'm
prisoned at Franklin last week for assault
and battery They were at once recognized
as the negro rioters in the July escapade in
Lafayette, Ala, and will be detained in case
of settlement of their difficulty at Frank
lin. Sheriff Stroller, who received O severe
blow on the head during the melee by Pat
ton, was in Franklin Wednesday and identi-
fed the negroes.
The Supreme Court of Georgia will soon
be called to review a case from Habersham
county, in which the line between that
county and Rabun is involved. The case of
Rabun county VS.. Habersham county was
tried in Habersham Superior Court in Sep
TENDER, 1886, and verdict rendered for the
defendant. Chief Justice Bleckley, having
been the counsel for Rabun county, Will be
disqualified for presiding next week. His
declaration IN the case IS full, minute ald
graphic,
Farris JOINS, a prosperous farmer of
Texas district, Heard county, was brought
to Franklin Sunday violently insane. Be
fore his arrest by neighbOrs, he literally tore
up his home, breathing most of his wife's
dishes, and a good deal Of furniture. He
has been in bad health for some time and
had gotten considerably behind financially
Before he had sufficiently recovered he
Overworked himself in the attempt to save
his wasting crop. This, it is thought, caused
his insanity. He left Tuesday morning for
the asylum.
At Waycross, few nights ago, gentle.
mans calf got out of the lot and straved off
Sunday morning, bright and early, thu
young man of the household got up and
started out to hunt for it. About o'clocl.
he came up with what he supposed TO be his
calf, and after chasing it around about an
hour, he succeeded in getting it into the lot,
where, much to his chagrin, he found that
it was not his calf at all, at all, but that he
bad tired himself out driving another mans
calf into his lot.
The Synod of Georgia will meet in the
Presbyterian church at Rome tomorrow
night at o'clock. Rev C. w, Lane. d. D
The body will remain in session till after
Sabbath, and services will be held each
night during the week. The synod is the
largest Presbyterian body in the State. 1t
includes the five presbyterieS of Athens, At
lanta, Augusta, Cherokee and Macon and
has total membership of nearly 800, but
perhaps not more than 100 delegates viii be
in attendance.
Readers of the News remember the ex-
plosion of boiler at a saw mill in Craw-
ford county, near Knoxville, and in which
young Mathews lost his life and a negro was
blown to pieces. Col. Ira Jennings was i'm
Macon Saturday, and reported that this
Negroes head was entirely blown off, and one
of his legs was also blown off and has never
been foppd, and his liver was blown out and
lodged in the top OF tree % feet high. The
other negro who was so badly scalded at the
time, is much better, and the physicians
think he will soon be able to 60 about his
work.
At the court house at Columbus Saturday
party of gentlemen were discussing the
best way to keep the buzzards from roosting
in the trees in the court house yard Master
johnnie Burrus said that he thought the
best way TO do it would be to kill them
Sergt Watt laughingly told Johnnie that
ne would give him DC apiece for all he
killed. Just then a buzzard sailed by, and
johnnie threw rock at him. The missile
WenI sJralSnt ana nara, ana his DuZzardshlp
came to the ground as dead as door nail
johnnie got his quarter, but was requested
not to throw any more.
Intelligence reached Woodbury. Saturday
of very serious difficulty which occurred
near Chalybeate Springs Friday evening be-
tween John Mitchell and Williara Phelps
The dispute arose about some cotton, when
Phelps gave Mitchell the lie Mitchell pro
coed to attack Phelps and was knocked back
by Phelps with a stick and upon steadying
himself he (MitchelD drew a revolver and
fired two or three shots at Phelps, one ball
taking effect in his left breast, and passed
almost through his body, and was extracted
from his back by DR.. Campbell. Phelps is
seriously if not fatally wounded.
Pink Bowen, an orderly, well-behaved
colored woman, wife of Ebert Bowen, died
at her home near Gray's station Oh Nov.
10. Her first husband, Butler Graves,
killed IN a barroom in 1888, was said to have
been the tallest man ever buried in Macon
and was noted, while living, for possessing
almost herculean strength. He was porter
at Smith & Iverson's when killed. When
the measure for his coffin was brought TO
undertaken j. j. Clay. the latter thought
it was jest, for the stick reached almost to
the ceiling. When assured there was no
joke in it his eyes bulged out on stems, and
he was figuratively paralyzed.